Nature
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
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